FACULTY AND STAFF
Becky Brister
Becky Brister graduated from Moorpark College in 2001 after receiving her A.S. in Photography. She went on to do her undergraduate study at U.C. Riverside where she studied with Uta Barth. In 2006 she graduated from UCLA with a MFA in Photography. Becky started teaching at Moorpark in 2006. She also has assisted, Uta Barth, John Divola and James Welling. Besides teaching, she is showing her work in galleries in the U.S. and freelances as a photographer and photo editor.
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Becky Brister graduated from Moorpark College in 2001 after receiving her A.S. in Photography. She went on to do her undergraduate study at U.C. Riverside where she studied with Uta Barth. In 2006 she graduated from UCLA with a MFA in Photography. Becky started teaching at Moorpark in 2006. She also has assisted, Uta Barth, John Divola and James Welling. Besides teaching, she is showing her work in galleries in the U.S. and freelances as a photographer and photo editor.
www.beckybrister.com
Stephen Callis
Stephen Callis is a photographer and educator from Los Angeles. He received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). His work, “As Water Stories Go...”, a documentary project about the L.A. River has been exhibited at Santa Ana College, El Camino College Art Gallery; University Art Gallery, Cal State L.A.; and Orange Coast College. This work has also been published in Architecture California, Framework, and Blake Gumprecht’s book, The Los Angeles River. His photonovelas dramatizing the lives of immigrant workers in Los Angeles have been distributed nationally as well as exhibited throughout Southern California and Mexico.
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Stephen Callis is a photographer and educator from Los Angeles. He received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). His work, “As Water Stories Go...”, a documentary project about the L.A. River has been exhibited at Santa Ana College, El Camino College Art Gallery; University Art Gallery, Cal State L.A.; and Orange Coast College. This work has also been published in Architecture California, Framework, and Blake Gumprecht’s book, The Los Angeles River. His photonovelas dramatizing the lives of immigrant workers in Los Angeles have been distributed nationally as well as exhibited throughout Southern California and Mexico.
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Corina Gamma
Director and Producer Corina Gamma is an emerging documentary filmmaker and accomplished fine-art photographer. Between 2009 and 2011 she traveled three times to Greenland and has spent over four months photographing and developing the documentary GATEKEEPERS OF THE ARCTIC. In her extensive research on Greenland’s environment and culture, she visited the many settlements and towns from the southern tip to the most northern village Siorapaluk. In May 2011 she joined climatologist Dr. Konrad Steffen and his expedition to Swiss Camp on the Inland Ice Sheet. She spent three weeks camping out on the ice together with the researchers, to witness their fieldwork. CORINA GAMMA applies her experience in fine-art photography towards her documentaries to create films that are artistic, yet of social-political significance. She seeks subject matters that explore the relationship between people and their environment, often reaching to the margins of human habitation. Her recently produced and directed visual essay WHERE JOURNEYS MEET, won the Wildlife Award at the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival. CORINA GAMMA produced and directed the documentary film TIES ON A FENCE that was shown in film festivals nation-wide and won two awards for Best Documentary. The film explored the lives of women on the fringes of society in downtown Los Angeles. CORINA GAMMA is Swiss born and studied fine art in Switzerland and the United States. She earned a Masters in Fine Arts from the Claremont Graduate University in California. Currently, she teaches college-level fine art photography.
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Director and Producer Corina Gamma is an emerging documentary filmmaker and accomplished fine-art photographer. Between 2009 and 2011 she traveled three times to Greenland and has spent over four months photographing and developing the documentary GATEKEEPERS OF THE ARCTIC. In her extensive research on Greenland’s environment and culture, she visited the many settlements and towns from the southern tip to the most northern village Siorapaluk. In May 2011 she joined climatologist Dr. Konrad Steffen and his expedition to Swiss Camp on the Inland Ice Sheet. She spent three weeks camping out on the ice together with the researchers, to witness their fieldwork. CORINA GAMMA applies her experience in fine-art photography towards her documentaries to create films that are artistic, yet of social-political significance. She seeks subject matters that explore the relationship between people and their environment, often reaching to the margins of human habitation. Her recently produced and directed visual essay WHERE JOURNEYS MEET, won the Wildlife Award at the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival. CORINA GAMMA produced and directed the documentary film TIES ON A FENCE that was shown in film festivals nation-wide and won two awards for Best Documentary. The film explored the lives of women on the fringes of society in downtown Los Angeles. CORINA GAMMA is Swiss born and studied fine art in Switzerland and the United States. She earned a Masters in Fine Arts from the Claremont Graduate University in California. Currently, she teaches college-level fine art photography.
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Karin Johansson
Karin Johansson is a Swedish photographer whose work has been exhibited internationally. Johansson’s photographic Her Cleaning stories series provide intimate glimpses into people’s private worlds. Photographing her subjects when they are at home, or relaxed with friends, she captures how individual personalities intersect with social context. In Heavenly Creatures Photography, she collaborates with Leslie Robertson (graduated from Moorpark College) they work as animal activists primarily photographing rescue and shelter dogs by means of classic portraiture and techniques. The sheer number of undesirable, abused and discarded dogs in LA is staggering; Karin and Leslie are motivated by the desire to reveal the innate nobility and true beauty of these animals in order to help them find their forever homes. Karin and Leslie also collaborate on special art projects inspired by historical images and the intriguing relationships between animals and people. Karin Johansson received an MFA in Photography at California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from Gothenburg University in Sweden.
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Karin Johansson is a Swedish photographer whose work has been exhibited internationally. Johansson’s photographic Her Cleaning stories series provide intimate glimpses into people’s private worlds. Photographing her subjects when they are at home, or relaxed with friends, she captures how individual personalities intersect with social context. In Heavenly Creatures Photography, she collaborates with Leslie Robertson (graduated from Moorpark College) they work as animal activists primarily photographing rescue and shelter dogs by means of classic portraiture and techniques. The sheer number of undesirable, abused and discarded dogs in LA is staggering; Karin and Leslie are motivated by the desire to reveal the innate nobility and true beauty of these animals in order to help them find their forever homes. Karin and Leslie also collaborate on special art projects inspired by historical images and the intriguing relationships between animals and people. Karin Johansson received an MFA in Photography at California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from Gothenburg University in Sweden.
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Steven Nilsson
Steven Nilsson is a Los Angeles based commercial photographer. Assignment interests include creative portraiture and still life as well as projects relating to architecture, landscape design, interior spaces, furniture and restaurants. In addition, Steve maintains a long-held interest in black and white “toy camera”
photography and has an extensive editorial, exhibition and publication list with this work. Steve moved to Los Angeles from Minneapolis to attend Art Center College of Design. Adjunct teaching positions have included both Otis College of Art and Design and Art Center College of Design. He works on a variety of advertising, corporate, editorial and personal projects from his studio (and darkroom!) in the
Brewery Arts Complex in downtown L.A. Toy camera images and client list at
stevennilsson.com and on Instagram @stevennilssonphotography
Steven Nilsson is a Los Angeles based commercial photographer. Assignment interests include creative portraiture and still life as well as projects relating to architecture, landscape design, interior spaces, furniture and restaurants. In addition, Steve maintains a long-held interest in black and white “toy camera”
photography and has an extensive editorial, exhibition and publication list with this work. Steve moved to Los Angeles from Minneapolis to attend Art Center College of Design. Adjunct teaching positions have included both Otis College of Art and Design and Art Center College of Design. He works on a variety of advertising, corporate, editorial and personal projects from his studio (and darkroom!) in the
Brewery Arts Complex in downtown L.A. Toy camera images and client list at
stevennilsson.com and on Instagram @stevennilssonphotography
William Short
William Short is an artist/photographer based in Los Angeles, California specializing in architectural, editorial and documentary photography. His commercial work has been published in Library Journal: The Year in Architecture, "Dream House, Los Angeles," Panache, The New York Times, International Wood, Design, Glas, Luxury, Life & Style, Casa Ventana, Southbay Home and Beach. His personal work has been published and widely exhibited in the United States, Germany, Japan, Australia and Viet Nam. His many professional awards include; a National Endowment for the Arts Travel Grant, a Jackson Pollock/Lee Krasner Foundation Artist Grant and he was an artist in residence at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Massachusetts for 2 years. He has 25 plus years teaching experience, having taught at the University of Southern California, the California Institute of the Arts, Moorpark College and Santa Monica College. He has also been a commentator for National Public Radio.
williamshortphotography.com Wikipedia -A Matter of Conscience
William Short is an artist/photographer based in Los Angeles, California specializing in architectural, editorial and documentary photography. His commercial work has been published in Library Journal: The Year in Architecture, "Dream House, Los Angeles," Panache, The New York Times, International Wood, Design, Glas, Luxury, Life & Style, Casa Ventana, Southbay Home and Beach. His personal work has been published and widely exhibited in the United States, Germany, Japan, Australia and Viet Nam. His many professional awards include; a National Endowment for the Arts Travel Grant, a Jackson Pollock/Lee Krasner Foundation Artist Grant and he was an artist in residence at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Massachusetts for 2 years. He has 25 plus years teaching experience, having taught at the University of Southern California, the California Institute of the Arts, Moorpark College and Santa Monica College. He has also been a commentator for National Public Radio.
williamshortphotography.com Wikipedia -A Matter of Conscience
Weng San Sit
Weng San Sit has led many lives that included a decade of cleaning and rust prevention work in shipyards and other industries. Currently she is a visual artist whose work have been exhibited internationally, an educator, newbie gardener and hopefully livelong passionate, curious learner. She was born in Singapore, had a BA in Economics and subsequently, studied in the General Studies program at the International Center of Photography before receiving her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts. Weng San’s work investigates the systems and power structures that create the dissonance between inattentive, homogeneous representations of marginalized bodies versus the reality of complex and multi-faceted identities; often the foundation of deeply entrenched inequalities. Mostly, she focuses on ways in which bodies that are colonized, colored, fat, differently-abled, aging, economically disfranchised and/or gendered exist with complexities that defy definition, and have always been sites of resistance and resilience.
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Weng San Sit has led many lives that included a decade of cleaning and rust prevention work in shipyards and other industries. Currently she is a visual artist whose work have been exhibited internationally, an educator, newbie gardener and hopefully livelong passionate, curious learner. She was born in Singapore, had a BA in Economics and subsequently, studied in the General Studies program at the International Center of Photography before receiving her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts. Weng San’s work investigates the systems and power structures that create the dissonance between inattentive, homogeneous representations of marginalized bodies versus the reality of complex and multi-faceted identities; often the foundation of deeply entrenched inequalities. Mostly, she focuses on ways in which bodies that are colonized, colored, fat, differently-abled, aging, economically disfranchised and/or gendered exist with complexities that defy definition, and have always been sites of resistance and resilience.
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